Arabisc: Why People Are Different; Women Wear the Hijab and Flickr is Banned! · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

In today's quick tour of Arabic blogs, we will make three stops. Our first is in Yemen, where we see a blogger's take on why people are born different from an Islamic perspective; the second is in Kuwait, where a blogger is urging a newly appointed female minister not to cave in to pressure and don the Islamic head gear – the Hijab – and the last stop in the UAE, where a blogger has just returned from a trip to Indonesia but is having trouble downloading his pictures online because flickr is banned in his country!
For Yemeni blogger Riyadh Al Ghaili there is a good reason why people are born different. Al Ghaili, who runs a blog of a religious nature, aims to explain the different teachings of Islam in a series of posts. The post I will translate today narrates an imaginary conversation with a friend about why people were created different from each other.
In Kuwait, blogger Zaydoun defends the right of newly appointed female Higher Education Minister Nouriya Subeeh Barrak Al-Subeeh not to wear the Hijab – an Islamic head cover for women.
Our last stop is in the UAE, where blogger Abdulla travels to Indonesia and tells us all about his visit here. Although the post is about uploading photographs of his trip for his readers to see what was he up to in Indonesia, Abdulla doesn't miss the opportunity to point out that photo hosting site flickr is banned in his country!